This is the company to watch. They are using cyanobacteria and spitting out ethanol and diesel fuel directly. i.e. no processing other than removing water (and diesel floats on water). What does it use for feed? Waste. Sewage. They built a small 100 acre system in Texas on less than 30 million. They just got 70 million and are building a 1000 acre system in hobbs NM. Once they have the scaling in place, they are going to erect these outside of cities all over. According to their numbers, they will have less than $30/bl equivelence as they scale up.
By coming up with a system to retro-fit into current cars, that would add not just intersection negotiation, but show speed limits (which COULD then vary depending on conditions, time of day, etc), give info about traffic, etc. The advantage of this, is that doing simple speed limits will not entire too many. HOWEVER, the ability to continue through an intersection, combined with getting other info, would actually encourage ppl to buy this system. Another advantage of this, is that it can provide information back to the police, etc: cars are moving, but stopped at one intersection. Why is that? Becomes a reason to divert a squad assuming that one is close and not busy.
First off, does Nigeria have Plutonium? Or just Uranium.
Secondly, Mafia is not building nukes. So, who were they obtaining Pu/U for? Obviously, they want to sell this on the black market, but who is buying? The only nations that I can think of would be North Korea, Burma, and Iran.
Of those, Iran is the likely suspect. If Iran is buying Pu on the black market, that says a lot. Basically, it means that they are trying hard to move their timeline up. The reason is that right now, they are breeding it in their reactor, but it will take some time.
What exactly is anti-european about You-Tube or even Google? Now, MS wants their monopoly and to eat everything to (and thankfully, EU hit them hard), but so far, Google has not been wicked by any measure (save from MS's POV). I did understand the German Ruling on Google WRT the books, but it appears at times that the other rulings were bending the local laws quite a bit to get those rulings.
As to citizens/politicians, I agree that we see issues here (and in europe, btw). I get tired of that mentality. I consider Canada, UK and Europe to be some of our closest alley, so I do not understand attitudes on either side. BUT, As one has spent some time in germany, I have seen that feelings and attitudes are both ways.
What has Google and You tube done that was anti-european or against local laws? There are times that it appears new law being created just to deal with containing Google, etc.
And as to my news source, I grab it from all over. That includes the BBC, spiegel, al jazerra, denverpost, and CNN.
Very rarely, I will get it from trash like Fox (neo-con's POV), The Sun (murdoch POV), Xinhuanet(China's POV), or Pravda(Russia and just plain bizzaro POV).
And other than questioning some of European ruling, please explain what is arrogant in my attitude? I understood and was fine with Germany's ruling about Google's publishing issue, but many other ruling seem to be more about containing Google, though I do not recall the particulars at this time.
Search Engines and Youtube are- not really considered part of a social network. As it is, EU appears to have a real hard-on about going after Google or other American businesses. So, will EU extend this new ruling to You Tube/Search engines?
General Atomic has been doing this for a long time. Even now, they have MULTIPLE Th reactors to submit for NRC approval.
However, had you read the article, you would have seen Flibe Energy. Basically, it is Kirk Sorenson's company which is doing Flouride salts of Lithium and Beriulium (sp). In 5 years, they will have a demonstrator model available to the US DOD of 25-50 MW size. The DOD can then use these for installing on their bases, esp. in locations such as Afghanistan or wherever we end up in our next war. Flibe is doing this because the DOD does not have the hoops that NRC has, they have the money, and they want SMALL power plants at first. NRC wants LARGE 100% proven on all aspects items.
In fact, the biggest subsidies go to-- you guessed it-- the green technologies.
That is just plain false. The truth is, that ALL of AE, gets less than EACH of Nuke, Coal, or Oil/Natural gas. In fact, it gets a real fraction of the total $.
Now, in terms of $ / Joules, then yes, AE gets more. Today. HOWEVER, the idea was to stimulate the industry to grow local and then stop it. Two problems with that:
1) the republicans insisted that the same subsidies go to all products esp. Chinese products, even though China does not reciprocate. As such, Chinese products are heavily subsidized by both American and Chinese gov. in terms of Joules while the Chinese also block any western AE products from their shores.
2) As long as we continue to subsidize the other energies while many ignore those, AE will continue to be considered expensive.
In a way, America currently has a distributed grid. We have LOADS of small 200 MW coal systems and a number of 400-600 MW nuke system all over the USA. In fact, most cities have at least one small coal type system somewhere close to its core (originally on the edge, but then built up around it).
A number of these will closed over the next 10-20 years and larger centralized coal, natural gas, and occasionally nuke power plants will replace these. The reason is because these old powerplants are from the 40s(coal) or from the 60s (nukes). Now, note that each and every single one of these locations are IDEAL. All of them have massive connections to the LOCAL grid. Likewise, they have cooling in place. Some have decent generators (though most do not). ALL of them have a lot of land around them esp. the nukes. So, what are these ideal for?
The nukes sites have stored 'waste' fuel. Instead of shutting these down, tearing down everything and then moving the waste to WIPP, it would actually be better to build a number of GE PRISM reactors on-site while JUST the old reactors are dismantled and shipped out. GE PRISM are the IFR reactors that use 'waste fuel'. Basically, other than part of their initial load of fuel, there would be no more shipping of fuel to the site for the next 100 years. Instead, you would add to these reactors with the local 'waste' fuel. Once done, that 'waste fuel' would be a fraction of the size and it would be dangerous for less than 200 years.
As to the coal facilities, these would also be useful. Either put in a thorium reactor, similar to Ft. St. Vrain's old generator, OR, consider putting in thermal storage. Now I have seen a number of comments against thermal storage backed up by natural gas boiler. It is correctly pointed out that you lose 50% of the efficiency. HOWEVER, this is a cheap cheap way to take older equipment, keep it running for another 30 years, while using it to provide a buffer for AE AND regular power. In addition, the energy that would be stored would be from AE that would normally be discard. For wind generators, they simply feather the blades rather than run them 100%. For Solar, they lose a large part just in resistance in the lines as it takes a bit of time for electric loads to come and go. IOW, such a thermal system would allow a company to build larger base-load plants while dumping all of the on-demand systems (read expensive to run). How to do the thermal system? Simple approach is just use silos of salts and heat it up via direct heating or even microwave. There are other more efficient systems being developed, but this would be inexpensive to install. In addition, other than waste heat, most of the pollution would be gone (save when you need to run natural gas to add electricity due to high loads for say AC or other site outages). As electric cars or other energy storage systems become available, these can be phased out.
Regardless, it would be criminal to lose this cheap opportunity to re-develop our energy matrix.
Yup. That is what I was thinking of, EXCEPT that it is not working in an autonomous or even semi-autonomous. This would be useful for NASA or even Google to create X-Prizes for doing just that. By getting equipment to be given an assignment and then you walk away, this allows for a larger number of exploration, construction and mining on the moon, mars AND earth.
Well, that is exactly what I was thinking. In fact, the code base could be adopted for robotics for the Moon and Mars. In my mind, it is better to send a number of smaller robotics to the moon, rather than one large one. That way if you lose one or two, you are not out of commission.
Seriously, build small equipment the size of a riding lawn mower, but then use RC (wifi or bluetooth) to control them. With being small and cheap, it would be possible to dig out multiple parts of an area.
Well, lets see. My mother's maiden name is McGregor and she still attends the clan meetings. When I was a kid in the 60's, I attended those as well. And yes, I ate the food. Things like Scotch Eggs, Sheppards pie, something that they called sausages, but it was oatmeal and something else, Bannock, Bangors, sweatbreads (yeah, right), and other items. All of them pretty damn BLAND. Even the curry
I have gone to the Scottish festivals here with my kids and introduce them to some of the food. To be honest, my 7 y.o. likes it, because she does not like spicy foods. My 5 y.o. finds it bland as well.
So, I have tasted many of the meats from Scotland as cooked by Scotsmen here. Though to be honest, I still have not tried haggis, since bland boiled meat really does not appeal to me (though I do eat stews every so often). It strikes me as being the same as eating blutwurst in Germany.
Now, as to curry, that comes from India. In fact, my wife's tamil background makes heavy heavy use of it. One thing that I have noticed is that Europe makes use of curry, but only in very light amounts. They do not like it heavy. They appear to not like spices. OTOH, here in the western USA, you will find loads of Curry and other spices. Want something light? Try jalapeño. Want something spicy? Try chipotle and Habanero in some chile. I am sure that if you have a decent corner store that imports esp. from Mexico or South West America, you can pick these up. Then please let us know how you bland you find the food that I eat here.
BTW, have you been to America, or do you just continue to speak about things that you know little about?
Actually, we would have to stop it. The reason is that the drug lords will still be in here pushing it. And my goal is not to encourage drugs, but to destroy gangs/drug lords. Even with what I am suggesting, there would be no advertising, etc.
Once legal, then they would be allowed to be imported. However, if we say no imports/exports on them, issue solved (WTO). This robs the drug lords of their money, at least from America.
We need to legalize ALL currently illegal recreational drugs in the USA, but put them under tight regs. In addition, we need to allow ZERO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS on these. Likewise, require that all of the precursors be manufactured here as well. Why? Because it destroys gangs and drug lords the world over. Once this is done, then illegal activities will stop. As to the drug use, it will remain. However, it will not be pushed.
Now, that is interesting. So, you are eating in Scotland (though you might not be). Yet, what is the national dish of Scotland? Boiled sheep stomach, otherwise known as Haggis (my wife, who is an Indian born in England, HATED the stuff). To make matters worse, England/Scotland are KNOWN for their absolutely bland bland BLAND food. Here in Western America, such as Colorado where I live, many natives will buy ranged beef, and yes, all of our sheep are ranged. And yet, without having been to America, you scream that we have bland greasy meat? So, why be such a wanker and make false accusation about things that you obviously know nothing about?
Its funny. The AC and others will think that this is a minor aliment, yet, they do not think about the fact that money was spent on this virus for a reason. Basically, it has a very high cost to society in terms of health care as well as pain and suffering. Oddly, even children can suffer from it, but rarely do. But adults? They ALL suffer from it.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet, they just got 70 million investment and have other investors begging to go with them.
This is the company to watch. They are using cyanobacteria and spitting out ethanol and diesel fuel directly. i.e. no processing other than removing water (and diesel floats on water). What does it use for feed? Waste. Sewage. They built a small 100 acre system in Texas on less than 30 million. They just got 70 million and are building a 1000 acre system in hobbs NM. Once they have the scaling in place, they are going to erect these outside of cities all over. According to their numbers, they will have less than $30/bl equivelence as they scale up.
FoxxConn is already producing their own fPad for sale in China. It is half the price of an iPad and looks, and runs exactly like an iPad.
By coming up with a system to retro-fit into current cars, that would add not just intersection negotiation, but show speed limits (which COULD then vary depending on conditions, time of day, etc), give info about traffic, etc. The advantage of this, is that doing simple speed limits will not entire too many. HOWEVER, the ability to continue through an intersection, combined with getting other info, would actually encourage ppl to buy this system. Another advantage of this, is that it can provide information back to the police, etc: cars are moving, but stopped at one intersection. Why is that? Becomes a reason to divert a squad assuming that one is close and not busy.
That was my thinking as well. Unless they bought Pu on the black market somewhere. Regardless, that means processing, which few nations have.
First off, does Nigeria have Plutonium? Or just Uranium.
Secondly, Mafia is not building nukes. So, who were they obtaining Pu/U for? Obviously, they want to sell this on the black market, but who is buying? The only nations that I can think of would be North Korea, Burma, and Iran.
Of those, Iran is the likely suspect. If Iran is buying Pu on the black market, that says a lot. Basically, it means that they are trying hard to move their timeline up. The reason is that right now, they are breeding it in their reactor, but it will take some time.
What exactly is anti-european about You-Tube or even Google? Now, MS wants their monopoly and to eat everything to (and thankfully, EU hit them hard), but so far, Google has not been wicked by any measure (save from MS's POV). I did understand the German Ruling on Google WRT the books, but it appears at times that the other rulings were bending the local laws quite a bit to get those rulings.
As to citizens/politicians, I agree that we see issues here (and in europe, btw). I get tired of that mentality. I consider Canada, UK and Europe to be some of our closest alley, so I do not understand attitudes on either side.
BUT, As one has spent some time in germany, I have seen that feelings and attitudes are both ways.
What has Google and You tube done that was anti-european or against local laws? There are times that it appears new law being created just to deal with containing Google, etc.
And as to my news source, I grab it from all over. That includes the BBC, spiegel, al jazerra, denverpost, and CNN.
Very rarely, I will get it from trash like Fox (neo-con's POV), The Sun (murdoch POV), Xinhuanet(China's POV), or Pravda(Russia and just plain bizzaro POV).
And other than questioning some of European ruling, please explain what is arrogant in my attitude? I understood and was fine with Germany's ruling about Google's publishing issue, but many other ruling seem to be more about containing Google, though I do not recall the particulars at this time.
Search Engines and Youtube are- not really considered part of a social network. As it is, EU appears to have a real hard-on about going after Google or other American businesses. So, will EU extend this new ruling to You Tube/Search engines?
LOL. ROFL.
IER is a tax-exempt public foundation and is funded entirely by tax deductible contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations. No financial support is sought for or accepted from the government.[1] According to the liberal watchdog group, Media Matters,[2] since 1996, $110,000 of IER's funding has come from the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, a trust set up by private energy company Koch Industries. IER also received over $300,000 in funding from ExxonMobil, [3], but Exxon has not given to IER since 2007.[4]
The Institute's CEO, Robert L. Bradley, Jr., was formerly a director of policy analysis at Enron, where he wrote speeches for Kenneth Lay. Bradley has written books indicting Enron's crony capitalism including "Capitalism at Work"[5] and "Edison to Enron."[6]
Here is a real report from the state of Texas's government.
Now, here is the break-down from about 5 years ago.
And if you want to use biased info, well, here you go. In this case, they include the direct money AND THE TAX breaks. Though to be honest, I find it is as worthless as your original link above. But, hey....
General Atomic has been doing this for a long time. Even now, they have MULTIPLE Th reactors to submit for NRC approval.
However, had you read the article, you would have seen Flibe Energy. Basically, it is Kirk Sorenson's company which is doing Flouride salts of Lithium and Beriulium (sp). In 5 years, they will have a demonstrator model available to the US DOD of 25-50 MW size. The DOD can then use these for installing on their bases, esp. in locations such as Afghanistan or wherever we end up in our next war. Flibe is doing this because the DOD does not have the hoops that NRC has, they have the money, and they want SMALL power plants at first. NRC wants LARGE 100% proven on all aspects items.
Look up GE PRISM.
In fact, the biggest subsidies go to-- you guessed it-- the green technologies.
That is just plain false. The truth is, that ALL of AE, gets less than EACH of Nuke, Coal, or Oil/Natural gas. In fact, it gets a real fraction of the total $. Now, in terms of $ / Joules, then yes, AE gets more. Today. HOWEVER, the idea was to stimulate the industry to grow local and then stop it. Two problems with that:
1) the republicans insisted that the same subsidies go to all products esp. Chinese products, even though China does not reciprocate. As such, Chinese products are heavily subsidized by both American and Chinese gov. in terms of Joules while the Chinese also block any western AE products from their shores.
2) As long as we continue to subsidize the other energies while many ignore those, AE will continue to be considered expensive.
Why is the above flamebait? He is asking for sources or a link for the GP's posting. I think that is MORE than fair to ask for.
In a way, America currently has a distributed grid. We have LOADS of small 200 MW coal systems and a number of 400-600 MW nuke system all over the USA. In fact, most cities have at least one small coal type system somewhere close to its core (originally on the edge, but then built up around it).
A number of these will closed over the next 10-20 years and larger centralized coal, natural gas, and occasionally nuke power plants will replace these. The reason is because these old powerplants are from the 40s(coal) or from the 60s (nukes). Now, note that each and every single one of these locations are IDEAL. All of them have massive connections to the LOCAL grid. Likewise, they have cooling in place. Some have decent generators (though most do not). ALL of them have a lot of land around them esp. the nukes. So, what are these ideal for?
The nukes sites have stored 'waste' fuel. Instead of shutting these down, tearing down everything and then moving the waste to WIPP, it would actually be better to build a number of GE PRISM reactors on-site while JUST the old reactors are dismantled and shipped out. GE PRISM are the IFR reactors that use 'waste fuel'. Basically, other than part of their initial load of fuel, there would be no more shipping of fuel to the site for the next 100 years. Instead, you would add to these reactors with the local 'waste' fuel. Once done, that 'waste fuel' would be a fraction of the size and it would be dangerous for less than 200 years.
As to the coal facilities, these would also be useful. Either put in a thorium reactor, similar to Ft. St. Vrain's old generator, OR, consider putting in thermal storage. Now I have seen a number of comments against thermal storage backed up by natural gas boiler. It is correctly pointed out that you lose 50% of the efficiency. HOWEVER, this is a cheap cheap way to take older equipment, keep it running for another 30 years, while using it to provide a buffer for AE AND regular power. In addition, the energy that would be stored would be from AE that would normally be discard. For wind generators, they simply feather the blades rather than run them 100%. For Solar, they lose a large part just in resistance in the lines as it takes a bit of time for electric loads to come and go. IOW, such a thermal system would allow a company to build larger base-load plants while dumping all of the on-demand systems (read expensive to run). How to do the thermal system? Simple approach is just use silos of salts and heat it up via direct heating or even microwave. There are other more efficient systems being developed, but this would be inexpensive to install. In addition, other than waste heat, most of the pollution would be gone (save when you need to run natural gas to add electricity due to high loads for say AC or other site outages). As electric cars or other energy storage systems become available, these can be phased out.
Regardless, it would be criminal to lose this cheap opportunity to re-develop our energy matrix.
Yup. That is what I was thinking of, EXCEPT that it is not working in an autonomous or even semi-autonomous. This would be useful for NASA or even Google to create X-Prizes for doing just that. By getting equipment to be given an assignment and then you walk away, this allows for a larger number of exploration, construction and mining on the moon, mars AND earth.
Well, that is exactly what I was thinking. In fact, the code base could be adopted for robotics for the Moon and Mars. In my mind, it is better to send a number of smaller robotics to the moon, rather than one large one. That way if you lose one or two, you are not out of commission.
Seriously, build small equipment the size of a riding lawn mower, but then use RC (wifi or bluetooth) to control them. With being small and cheap, it would be possible to dig out multiple parts of an area.
Well, lets see. My mother's maiden name is McGregor and she still attends the clan meetings. When I was a kid in the 60's, I attended those as well. And yes, I ate the food. Things like Scotch Eggs, Sheppards pie, something that they called sausages, but it was oatmeal and something else, Bannock, Bangors, sweatbreads (yeah, right), and other items. All of them pretty damn BLAND. Even the curry
I have gone to the Scottish festivals here with my kids and introduce them to some of the food. To be honest, my 7 y.o. likes it, because she does not like spicy foods. My 5 y.o. finds it bland as well.
So, I have tasted many of the meats from Scotland as cooked by Scotsmen here. Though to be honest, I still have not tried haggis, since bland boiled meat really does not appeal to me (though I do eat stews every so often). It strikes me as being the same as eating blutwurst in Germany.
Now, as to curry, that comes from India. In fact, my wife's tamil background makes heavy heavy use of it. One thing that I have noticed is that Europe makes use of curry, but only in very light amounts. They do not like it heavy. They appear to not like spices. OTOH, here in the western USA, you will find loads of Curry and other spices. Want something light? Try jalapeño. Want something spicy? Try chipotle and Habanero in some chile. I am sure that if you have a decent corner store that imports esp. from Mexico or South West America, you can pick these up. Then please let us know how you bland you find the food that I eat here.
BTW, have you been to America, or do you just continue to speak about things that you know little about?
Actually, we would have to stop it. The reason is that the drug lords will still be in here pushing it. And my goal is not to encourage drugs, but to destroy gangs/drug lords. Even with what I am suggesting, there would be no advertising, etc.
Once legal, then they would be allowed to be imported. However, if we say no imports/exports on them, issue solved (WTO). This robs the drug lords of their money, at least from America.
We need to legalize ALL currently illegal recreational drugs in the USA, but put them under tight regs. In addition, we need to allow ZERO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS on these. Likewise, require that all of the precursors be manufactured here as well. Why? Because it destroys gangs and drug lords the world over. Once this is done, then illegal activities will stop. As to the drug use, it will remain. However, it will not be pushed.
Ok;
Now, that is interesting. So, you are eating in Scotland (though you might not be). Yet, what is the national dish of Scotland? Boiled sheep stomach, otherwise known as Haggis (my wife, who is an Indian born in England, HATED the stuff). To make matters worse, England/Scotland are KNOWN for their absolutely bland bland BLAND food. Here in Western America, such as Colorado where I live, many natives will buy ranged beef, and yes, all of our sheep are ranged. And yet, without having been to America, you scream that we have bland greasy meat? So, why be such a wanker and make false accusation about things that you obviously know nothing about?
I would like to see all docs refuse to see patients that refuse to get their vaccines.
Sorry to hear that.
Its funny. The AC and others will think that this is a minor aliment, yet, they do not think about the fact that money was spent on this virus for a reason. Basically, it has a very high cost to society in terms of health care as well as pain and suffering. Oddly, even children can suffer from it, but rarely do. But adults? They ALL suffer from it.